Monday night at Lincoln Center in New York City, early-music expert Jordi Savall is taking his audience back to ancient Jerusalem. But this project is different from the work that has earned Savall ...

FOR Jordi Savall — early-music pioneer and master of the viola da gamba — music is always more than fleeting sounds. It enfolds histories. It reflects worlds. To draw a distinction between musicology ...

Near the end of a triumphant concert Saturday, Catalan early-music legend Jordi Savall boasted that the singers and instrumentalists on the overflowing stage at the Library of Congress hailed from 40 ...

When the Catalan viol player Jordi Savall presented three concerts at the Metropolitan Museum earlier this month, one musical border after another seemed to melt away—borders between past and present, ...

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Jordi Savall has made a career of reviving ancient music. Whatever the age of the songs, though, he doesn't play them as museum-piece recreations, preserved in isolation. Savall takes great pleasure ...

“ALL the essential things between a man and a woman are said softly. Music is the same.” Or so says Jordi Savall, a courtly 64-year-old Catalan whose lifelong study of the viola da gamba has led to ...

Catalan viol virtuoso Jordi Savall and his various ensembles — Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya — have such an extensive repertoire, from the 10th century to the ...

There's something of a forensic science lurking within the music of Jordi Savall. The viol, a six-stringed instrument beloved of the baroque period, lay silent for more than two centuries until this ...

When we invoke the Spanish Golden Age, that thriving of arts and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries, we think, inevitably, of Cervantes, El Greco, Velázquez. In Madrid, Spaniards are daily ...

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